Madhatter Thawne

Author on Reedsy Prompts since May, 2021

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“Wanna play Yacht? ” by Madhatter Thawne

Submitted to Contest #149

People laugh about it all the time now. Even after I explain the reasoning for it they will sit in silence for a moment, digesting the sweet but bitter reality of it and then they laugh some more. I have always had a keen eye for good people and no-one has ever judged me for anything in my life other than myself but this part of my home always came with an explanation. My family played Yacht when I was a kid instead of Yahtzee. We were poor as any normal middle class adult could see, but as kids we didn’t know this at all. My parents did eve...

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“The First Mission ” by Madhatter Thawne

Submitted to Contest #96

They looked strange to me, I was told to expect that, but I guess I wasn’t quite ready for it when I actually saw them up close. They had microscopic eyes that I imagined were good for nothing and stuff, they had so many things in their little private boxes they kept themselves in. The town was small, we liked to keep it that way, safety protocol and all. I could smell the scent of their soil and the other animals nearby; dogs, cats, cows and a few chickens. This was my first rotation near their sun as I had just finished my training and the...

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“Now i lay me down to sleep” by Madhatter Thawne

Submitted to Contest #95

I found Charlie through a friend of an old roommate that I didn’t even care for. Lisa, even her name annoyed me, I remember when she moved out that I was so grateful to never have to smell her perfume again lingering in the hallway of my apartment as she would skip off to one of her five jobs. She used the apartment to keep her stuff, I was Lisa’s unfriendly landlord of her storage facility. Lisa was never home because she was always so busy working day in and day out, some people did that, they worked the entire time. I worked a lot too but...

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